GROUND in Classic Quotes

1  Dill punched my shoulder, and we lowered him to the ground.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

2  I heard him groan and pull something heavy along the ground.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

3  Suddenly he was jerked backwards and flung on the ground, almost carrying me with him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

4  We were nearly to the road when I felt Jem's hand leave me, felt him jerk backwards to the ground.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

5  I thought it was Jem at first, but it didn't sound like him, so I went lookin for Jem on the ground.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 29

6  When he passed we would look at the ground and say, "Good morning, sir," and he would cough in reply.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

7  I went to where I thought he had been and felt frantically along the ground, reaching out with my toes.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

8  This was not entirely correct: I wouldn't fight publicly for Atticus, but the family was private ground.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

9  Bob Ewell's lyin on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

10  Dr. Buford's profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

11  Metal ripped on metal and I fell to the ground and rolled as far as I could, floundering to escape my wire prison.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

12  It would flutter to the ground and Jem would jab it up, until I thought if Boo Radley ever received it he wouldn't be able to read it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

13  He stooped and picked up his glasses, ground the broken lenses to powder under his heel, and went to Mr. Tate and stood looking down at Tim Johnson.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

14  Our houses had no cellars; they were built on stone blocks a few feet above the ground, and the entry of reptiles was not unknown but was not commonplace.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

15  He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds and leaves.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

16  The Levy family met all criteria for being Fine Folks: they did the best they could with the sense they had, and they had been living on the same plot of ground in Maycomb for five generations.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

17  Dill was of the opinion that an appeal to Atticus's better nature might work: after all, we would starve if Mr. Ewell killed him, besides be raised exclusively by Aunt Alexandra, and we all knew the first thing she'd do before Atticus was under the ground good would be to fire Calpurnia.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23